Felix Kaufmann

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Felix Kaufmann (4 July 1895, Vienna - 23 December 1949, New York) was an Austrian-American philosopher of law.

He studied jurisprudence and philosopher in Vienna. From 1922 to 1938 he was a Privatdozent there. During this time Kaufmann was associated with the Vienna Circle. He also wrote on the foundations of mathematics where, along with Hermann Weyl and Oskar Becker, he was attempting to apply the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl to constructive mathematics.

In 1938 the conditions for Jewish scholars became too hard, and he left for the USA. There he taught until his death as a law professor, in the Graduate Faculty of the New York School for Social Research .

[edit] Works

  • Logik und Rechtwissenschaft, 1922
  • Die Kriterien des Rechts, 1924
  • Das Unendliche in der Mathematik und seine Ausschaltung, 1930
  • Methodenlehre der Sozialwissenschaften, 1936

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